How to use formatDateTime in Azure Data Factory? - azure-data-factory

I would like to format the pipeline trigger time in this format:
10-Mar-2021 08:31:59 AM
Here is the code I am using:
#formatDateTime(pipeline().TriggerTime, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI:SS AM/PM')
However the date is coming out in this format:
'DD-3ON-YYYY 08:3I:SS A3/P3'
How can I resolve this?

The formatDateTime function uses the custom date format strings which you can see listed here. A detailed breakdown
dd - the day of the month from 01 to 31. Note this is lower case and this format gives a leading 0. Using d for no leading 0
MMM - the abbreviated name of the month, eg JAN, FEB, MAR. Note this is upper case
yyyy - the year as a four-digit number. Note this is lower case
hh - the hour using a 12-hour clock from 01 to 12. Note this is lower case. As you are using AM/PM it makes sense to have the 12-hour clock rather than 24 (ie 23:00 PM would not make sense). Note this is lower case
mm - the minute from 00 to 50. Note this is lower case
ss - the second from 00 to 50. Note this is lower case
tt - the AM/PM designator. Note this is lower case
So using this information, your code should be more like this:
#formatDateTime(pipeline().TriggerTime, 'dd-MMM-yyyy hh:mm:ss tt')
I have test the expression using a Set Variable activity and got the following results:

EEE : Day ( Mon )
MMM : Month in words ( Dec )
MM : Day in Count ( 324 )
mm : Month ( 12 )
dd : Date ( 3 )
HH : Hours ( 12 )
mm : Minutes ( 50 )
ss : Seconds ( 34 )
yyyy: Year ( 2020 ) //both yyyy and YYYY are same
YYYY: Year ( 2020 )
zzz : GMT+05:30
aa : ( AM / PM )

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Date listing at postgresql

and date(p.date_of_sale) <= current_date
I try this code and I got an answer like that.
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But an error is shown like that.
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Please watch 2 screenshots because I am not fluent in English and I don't know how to explain with text. That's why I add 2 screenshots.
Your problem comes from to_char(p.date_of_sale, 'yyyy "-week" iw') where
iw = week number of ISO 8601 week-numbering year (01–53; the first Thursday of the year is in week 1)
whereas yyyy = the year on 4 digits (not the ISO8601 year)
These two parameters are sometimes not consistent for instance for 2023 January the 1st :
SELECT to_char('20230101' :: date, 'yyyy') => 2023
SELECT to_char('20230101' :: date, 'iw') => 52
If you want to be consistent, you can either :
select to_char('20230101' :: date, 'YYYY"-week" w') => 2023-week 1
or
select to_char('20230101' :: date, 'IYYY"-week" iw') => 2022-week 52 (ISO8601 year and week)
see dbfiddle

Wrong day when using day()-formula with format - PowerBI

I'm trying to find out the weekday i.e Mon, Tue, Wed etc. from a date-range formatted as yyyy mm dd
I tried to use the formula format(day(Date Table),"ddd"), but the weekday is wrong. In my example, the output of 2020.01.01 gives Sunday, but it should be Wednesday.
I think your formula is wrong:
Instead of
format(day(Date Table),"ddd")
Use
format(<Target Table>[<date column>],"ddd")
I.e. Omit the DAX DAY call. This is resulting in the day of the month (1..31) being passed to the format function.
When you use the DAY function in DAX, it returns the day of the month (1 through 31).
Thus DAY ( DATE ( 2020, 1, 1) ) = 1 which means you're trying to format the number 1 as a date. Integers are interpreted as days since 1899/12/30 when treated as a date, so 1 corresponds to 1899/12/31, which happened to be a Sunday. Thus FORMAT(1, "ddd") = "Sun".
There's no reason to get DAY involved here. You can simply write
Day = FORMAT ( 'Calendar'[Date], "ddd" )

Is there a way to make custom date formats in Julia?

I would like to be able to convert
"Tue Sep 01 00:00:26 +00:00 2020"
into a date type in Julia using the built in Date function.
I only need the year, month, and date.
This is tricky because you have a time zone here hence you need to use TimeZones.jl
using TimeZones, Dates
df = Dates.DateFormat("e u d H:M:S z y");
d = ZonedDateTime("Tue Sep 01 00:00:26 +00:00 2020", df)
Let se what we got:
julia> d = ZonedDateTime("Tue Sep 01 00:00:26 +00:00 2020", df)
2020-09-01T00:00:26+00:00
julia> Date(d)
2020-09-01
For more try typying ?DateFormat in the console - you will see the docs.
Code Matches Comment
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y 1996, 96 Returns year of 1996, 0096
Y 1996, 96 Returns year of 1996, 0096. Equivalent to y
m 1, 01 Matches 1 or 2-digit months
u Jan Matches abbreviated months according to the locale keyword
U January Matches full month names according to the locale keyword
d 1, 01 Matches 1 or 2-digit days
H 00 Matches hours (24-hour clock)
I 00 For outputting hours with 12-hour clock
M 00 Matches minutes
S 00 Matches seconds
s .500 Matches milliseconds
e Mon, Tues Matches abbreviated days of the week
E Monday Matches full name days of the week
p AM Matches AM/PM (case-insensitive)
yyyymmdd 19960101 Matches fixed-width year, month, and day
To parse dates you need the Dates.jl standard library. To parse this particular format though, I think you additionally need the TimeZones.jl package:
using Dates
using TimeZones # gives the `z` for the format below
fmt = dateformat"e u d H:M:S z y" # the format of your string
d = Date("Tue Sep 01 00:00:26 +00:00 2020", fmt)
Then you can simply look at d's values for example with:
julia> d
2020-09-01
julia> year(d)
2020
julia> month(d)
9
julia> day(d)
1

Groovy Date code producing unexpected output

Why is below code producing output like this ?
String oldDate = "2013-12-05 01:34:54.270"
Date date = Date.parse( 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss', oldDate )
Output : Sat Jan 05 01:34:54 EST 2013
When it should simply produce December 5 as the date in the output ? In fact in the original string whatever month I put in it produces the exact same output.
The problem is your date format isn't correct. mm is for minutes where MM is for month. So it should be:
String oldDate = "2013-12-05 01:34:54.270"
Date date = Date.parse( 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss', oldDate )
You can find out more from the Java API docs for SimpleDateFormat.

Crystal Reports show current month as a 2 digit field

I wonder if anyone could help on this please? I need to show the current month as a 2 digit field. IE
January as 01
February as 02
March as 03
etc until
October as 10
November as 11
December as 12
The formula I am using is: ToText ("0"& Month(CurrentDate))
but shows January as 01.00
ie need to remove the decimal point and the decimal places
Many thanks, Rob
Try this:
ToText( CurrentDate, "MM")
The ToText function will automatically convert the date you are supplying to whatever format you want. You don't need to use the Month function. Per the documentation, you just supply the date and the output format. For the month, you use "MM".
ToText(CurrentDate, "MM")
According to the documention, these are the valid strings you can use
Pattern Result
d Numeric day of month without leading zero (1, 7, 31)
dd Numeric day of month with leading zero (01, 07, 31)
ddd Three day abbreviation of day of week (Mon, Sat)
dddd Full name of day of week (Monday, Saturday)
M Numeric month without leading zero (1, 7, 12)
MM Numeric month with leading zero (01, 07, 12)
MMM Three letter abbreviation of month (Jan, Feb, Mar)
MMMM Full name of month (January, February, March)
yy Last two digits of year (11, 14, 22)
yyyy Full four digits of year (2011, 2014, 2022)
To add to the above, if you need to return something like Mar-17 then:
totext({Command.DocDate},"MMM") + '-' + totext({Command.DocDate},"yy")